Checklist Greece; scientific names
Below is a checklist of the 77 dragonfly and damselfly species for the area Greece. It's based on Dijkstra, Schröter & Lewington's Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Britain and Europe (2020), on the Atlas of the European Dragonflies and Damselflies (Boudot & Kalkman (eds.), 2015), and - in a handful of cases - on new area records. Please click here if you would like to see the list below with the English common names.
The list below is sorted alphabetically on the species' scientific names. Clicking on a species name in the list allows you to then cycle through the entire checklist for the area Greece by using the Previous (<==) and Next (==>) buttons at the bottom of each page. If you would prefer to see it sorted as per our overall checklist, please click here.
Note: if you believe a species is missing from the checklist below, please do email us at with the new information, together with the relevant source(s) and references. If we agree that the new information is indeed valid, we will update the checklist as soon as possible.
Please click on a species name below to see our 20 photographs of that species.
| # | Scientific name |
|---|
| 1 | Aeshna affinis Vander Linden, 1820   |
| 2 | Aeshna cyanea (Müller, 1764)  |
| 3 | Aeshna isoceles (Müller, 1767)  |
| 4 | Aeshna mixta Latreille, 1805  |
| 5 | Anax ephippiger (Burmeister, 1839)  |
| 6 | Anax immaculifrons Rambur, 1842  |
| 7 | Anax imperator Leach, 1815  |
| 8 | Anax parthenope (Selys, 1839)  |
| 9 | Brachytron pratense (Müller, 1764)  |
| 10 | Caliaeschna microstigma (Schneider, 1845)  |
| 11 | Calopteryx splendens (Harris, 1780)  |
| 12 | Calopteryx virgo (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 13 | Ceriagrion georgifreyi Schmidt, 1953  |
| 14 | Ceriagrion tenellum (de Villers, 1789)  |
| 15 | Chalcolestes parvidens (Artobolevsky, 1929)  |
| 16 | Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 17 | Coenagrion ornatum (Selys, 1850)  |
| 18 | Coenagrion puella (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 19 | Coenagrion pulchellum (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 20 | Coenagrion scitulum (Rambur, 1842)  |
| 21 | Cordulegaster bidentata Selys, 1843  |
| 22 | Cordulegaster helladica (Lohmann, 1993)  |
| 23 | Cordulegaster heros Theischinger, 1979  |
| 24 | Cordulegaster insignis Schneider, 1845  |
| 25 | Cordulegaster picta Selys, 1854  |
| 26 | Cordulia aenea (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 27 | Crocothemis erythraea (Brullé, 1832)  |
| 28 | Diplacodes lefebvrii (Rambur, 1842)  |
| 29 | Enallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier, 1840)  |
| 30 | Epallage fatime (Charpentier, 1840)  |
| 31 | Erythromma lindenii (Selys, 1840)  |
| 32 | Erythromma najas (Hansemann, 1823)  |
| 33 | Erythromma viridulum (Charpentier, 1840)  |
| 34 | Gomphus schneiderii Selys, 1850  |
| 35 | Gomphus vulgatissimus (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 36 | Ischnura elegans (Vander Linden, 1820)  |
| 37 | Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier, 1825)  |
| 38 | Lestes barbarus (Fabricius, 1798)  |
| 39 | Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890  |
| 40 | Lestes macrostigma (Eversmann, 1836)  |
| 41 | Lestes sponsa (Hansemann, 1823)  |
| 42 | Lestes virens (Charpentier, 1825)  |
| 43 | Libellula depressa Linnaeus, 1758  |
| 44 | Libellula fulva Müller, 1764  |
| 45 | Libellula quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1758  |
| 46 | Lindenia tetraphylla (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 47 | Onychogomphus forcipatus (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 48 | Ophiogomphus cecilia (Fourcroy, 1785)  |
| 49 | Orthetrum albistylum (Selys, 1848)  |
| 50 | Orthetrum brunneum (Fonscolombe, 1837)  |
| 51 | Orthetrum cancellatum (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 52 | Orthetrum chrysostigma (Burmeister, 1839)  |
| 53 | Orthetrum coerulescens (Fabricius, 1798)  |
| 54 | Orthetrum sabina (Drury, 1773)  |
| 55 | Orthetrum taeniolatum (Schneider, 1845)  |
| 56 | Orthetrum trinacria (Selys, 1841)  |
| 57 | Pantala flavescens (Fabricius, 1798)  |
| 58 | Platycnemis pennipes (Pallas, 1771)  |
| 59 | Pyrrhosoma elisabethae Schmidt, 1948  |
| 60 | Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulzer, 1776)  |
| 61 | Selysiothemis nigra (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 62 | Somatochlora borisi Marinov, 2001  |
| 63 | Somatochlora flavomaculata (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 64 | Somatochlora meridionalis Nielsen, 1935  |
| 65 | Stylurus flavipes (Charpentier, 1825)  |
| 66 | Sympecma fusca (Vander Linden, 1820)  |
| 67 | Sympetrum depressiusculum (Selys, 1841)  |
| 68 | Sympetrum flaveolum (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 69 | Sympetrum fonscolombii (Selys, 1840)  |
| 70 | Sympetrum meridionale (Selys, 1841)  |
| 71 | Sympetrum pedemontanum (Müller in Allioni, 1766)  |
| 72 | Sympetrum sanguineum (Müller, 1764)  |
| 73 | Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier, 1840)  |
| 74 | Sympetrum vulgatum (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 75 | Trithemis annulata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)  |
| 76 | Trithemis arteriosa (Burmeister, 1839)  |
| 77 | Trithemis festiva (Rambur, 1842)  |